Channel 4 has destroyed The Simpsons

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The snapshot of The Snipsons also makes the entertaining point that, while Sky One had refused point blank (pun intended) to show The Cartridge Family (at least up 'til that point), when it was finally released on VHS as part of the "Too Hot For TV" set, the BBFC considered all the gun and violence-based carnage to be worthy of... which certificate? 12? 15? 18? No, PG.

Channel four are a disgrace for doing this, RTE show the show at the exact same time and there hasn't been one scene that has ever been edited, so why does channel four do this are they being made ofcom or are they doing this by choice.

There used to be a brilliant site called The Snipsons, which kept a log of all the cuts made to the various episodes. It's mostly still available at http://web.archive.org/web/20010608210709/http://www.depro.co.uk/page11.html . For example, Sky used to cut out the part of the episode "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer" (i.e. the chilli eating contest) where Homer drank the candle wax, pretty much rendering the subsequent scene pretty odd.

But the fact is that a very large number of people find this usage of "rape" to be unacceptable. I would like to think of myself as very open minded when it comes to language but even I don't like it. I don't know where the line is, but this crosses it.

Funny quote from one of last week's simpsons.
'Haha distracted, that's a funny word. i wonder if anyone ever gets tracted, i'll phone the suicide helpline & find out' Or something like that.
Okay, i don't fully get it but it was funny
I hardly ever watch the simpsons now :eek:
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But the fact is that a very large number of people find this usage of "rape" to be unacceptable. I would like to think of myself as very open minded when it comes to language but even I don't like it. I don't know where the line is, but this crosses it.

Yes I agree, this crosses the line. The thing is, if you have been murdered, then someone saying "murder a cheesburger" isn't going to come back to disturb you. You're dead. However, if you survive being raped, then all this out of context use of "rape this rape that" is going to cause offence and hurt. Real hurt.
Like I said, I've luckliy not been raped, but I know someone who has, and it broke my heart when she told me about it.
I don't get offended easily about anything, but this thread's title offends me. It's just so stupid and inappropriate and horrible. It makes me so sad.

Cheesebugers and the countryside are all things, not people. Now I know the Simpsons are not real people, but the offence is when the word is wrongly applied to a person or people. I hate it when kids say "We got raped" for example on the XBox360. Horrible.

Yes I agree, this crosses the line. The thing is, if you have been murdered, then someone saying "murder a cheesburger" isn't going to come back to disturb you. You're dead. However, if you survive being raped, then all this out of context use of "rape this rape that" is going to cause offence and hurt. Real hurt.
Like I said, I've luckliy not been raped, but I know someone who has, and it broke my heart when she told me about it.
I don't get offended easily about anything, but this thread's title offends me. It's just so stupid and inappropriate and horrible. It makes me so sad.

Yes I agree, this crosses the line. The thing is, if you have been murdered, then someone saying "murder a cheesburger" isn't going to come back to disturb you. You're dead. However, if you survive being raped, then all this out of context use of "rape this rape that" is going to cause offence and hurt. Real hurt.
Like I said, I've luckliy not been raped, but I know someone who has, and it broke my heart when she told me about it.I don't get offended easily about anything, but this thread's title offends me. It's just so stupid and inappropriate and horrible. It makes me so sad.

Earlier today they showed the episode where Santa's Little Helper had to learn to behave or they would get rid of him. Two memorable-ish scenes were totally ruined.

1. When Marge shows Lisa how to sew, she burns her finger with a lighter. This was edited out yet the sound of the lighter being lit was left in.

2. PULL THE BLOODY CHAIN, BOY!!!! was edited to PULL THE BL-CHAIN BOY!!!

Disgraceful. :mad:

...Are you entirely serious?

Channel 4 air it at 6 in the evening. Prime time, which, as much as I am an advocate of frees peech, wouldn't want my kids to pick up bad vocal habits from a TV show, or to get curious about lighters, especially after all the channels collectively put so much hard work into educating our children as to why you should never play with matches, and that importantly, they hurt.

If you'd bothered to research it a little, you'd know that channel 4 also air the simpsons late night.

Another recent cut was on the episode where Marge had written a novel and got it published. Apu was talking to Homer about the book and once he left, he said 'this is how you talk when you learn English from Porno movies' was cut. :mad:

For some reason I'm not bothered by someone saying 'The show's been murdered', but I think 'The show's been raped' is a bit more graphic and unpleasant. I don't know why. However, I wasn't offended by the thread title.

However, if someone said 'I could rape a cheeseburger' then I would think they were being unnecessarily unpleasant. I wouldn't try to censor their speech, but I wouldn't like it either. Perhaps it's because murder is a bit more abstract and non-specific (ie what method), whereas rape is a pretty clear cut concept.

If someone says 'Jeez, I could kill you for that', it sounds like a joke. If you said 'you deserve to be raped for that!', it comes across much more as bad taste. I

magine if someone said they worked in a primary school. 'Sometimes I could kill the little tykes when they misbehave!' - that you wouldn't take too seriously. But if you substitute the word 'kill'... Do I need to spell it out?